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Thomson said that trips to Canada fall into a "different category" because it is on the same continent as the United States, and the program has an "obligation to expose fellows to their problems."
The Astors had received other bids for the Observer-from Fleet Street, four Arab countries and even a Hong Kong patent-medicine heiress. Until last week the leading suitor was Publisher Rupert Murdoch, the Australian whose three-continent newspaper empire includes London's Sun and News of the World...
"As Brazil goes," said an animated Richard Nixon in 1971, "so will the rest of the Latin American continent." Indeed, since its 1964 coup set the stage for a wave of military takeovers on the continent, Brazil has been regarded as the center of gravity of South American politics.
Drug busts in Europe are mounting geometrically. So far this year, Common Market narcs have seized 440 kilos of heroin, as much as was intercepted from 1972 to 1975. By the police rule of thumb that seizures equal 10% of the traffic, Golden Triangle dope routed through Amsterdam is now...
The staggering abundance of the American continent invited squandering-and it was not necessarily a paleface invention. Indians of the Pacific Northwest conducted potlatches-orgies of eating, gift giving and the willful destruction of their own property. The more a man could part with, the greater his status. The prairies...